Engineering Manager - Energy at Utility Warehouse | GB | Rezi

Engineering Manager - Energy at Utility Warehouse

Engineering Manager - Energy

Utility Warehouse · GB

1 weeks ago

Engineering Manager - Energy

Utility Warehouse · GB

11 days ago
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About the Role

As an Engineering Manager at UW, you will create clarity, consistency, and momentum within your squad. You will co-lead a squad alongside a Product Manager, working in a cross-functional environment with colleagues in UX and Data. Your role is to act as a bridge, interacting with stakeholders across the business to provide vital insight and context to your team.

Responsibilities

  • Take responsibility for the technical decisions the squad makes and ensure they align with company and technical strategy.
  • Understand all of the technologies used by UW in your squad, and how they fit together.
  • Take an integral role in defining team goals and ensuring proposed work is aligned with them.
  • Drive prioritisation within the team to best achieve goals.
  • Identify and put in place practices needed to ensure security and operational service level objectives (SLOs) are met.
  • Coordinate with your squad — and others as needed — to ensure organisation-wide on-call coverage.
  • Drive the squad to operational excellence, leading regular metrics reviews to ensure high coverage and performance.
  • Work with the Product Manager and team to set objectives and key results (OKRs) that align with company goals.
  • Identify risks and blockers early and work with stakeholders to mitigate them.
  • Measure team performance so that you can continually improve it.
  • Communicate team progress against OKRs, key performance indicators (KPIs) and other milestones to relevant stakeholders.
  • Co-lead annual and quarterly planning for your squad.
  • Ensure the squad is staffed with the technical skillsets to deliver objectives, developing skills within team members and/or hiring as needed.
  • Onboard, train, develop and coach your reports to facilitate their career growth.
  • Participate in performance calibration and promotion reviews for your squad.
  • Understand and communicate company, department, and pillar strategy and goals to your squad.
  • Interact with stakeholders from across the business in order to provide insight and context to their teams.
  • Teach our culture to others and foster a healthy dynamic within your team.
  • Help to resolve interpersonal conflicts and gather, share and act on feedback.
  • Effectively communicate company and department changes to your squad.
  • Raise the team's voice to senior leadership.
  • Collaborate effectively with cross-functional colleagues, such as UX and data.
  • Co-lead your squad with your squad's Product Manager.
  • Ensure team expenditures (both OpEx and CapEx) are in line with budgets.

Requirements

  • Knowledge of gRPC, GraphQL, React, Kafka, Docker & Kubernetes.
  • Experience with Go is preferred but not essential.
  • Experience leading the team's technical design process, facilitating design discussions and representing the team in cross-functional technical conversations.
  • Ability to drive technical decisions to clear, well-documented outcomes by evaluating options, trade-offs, and next steps when the team disagrees.
  • Experience validating designs and architecture against real-world edge cases and domain variations to minimise avoidable rework.
  • Ability to take ownership of technical decisions, ensuring they align with product and engineering strategy.
  • Strong understanding of engineering best practices, proactively identifying opportunities for improvement.
  • Hands-on experience with AI development tools.
  • Experience defining team goals and driving prioritisation to achieve them.
  • Experience creating clarity when competing priorities, technical options, or complex legacy system migrations threaten focus or timelines.
  • Ability to work with Product Managers to set OKRs aligned with company goals.
  • Ability to co-lead annual and quarterly planning.
  • Experience identifying risks early and mitigating them.
  • Experience improving delivery predictability by surfacing risks early and cutting or sequencing scope to protect commitments.
  • Experience identifying practices for security and SLOs.
  • Ability to drive operational excellence and lead metrics reviews.
  • Experience of managing a team of engineers.
  • Proven ability to onboard, train, develop, and coach reports, as well as participating in performance calibration and promotion reviews.
  • Intermediate awareness of customer and market insights.
  • Ability to communicate strategy to the squad.
  • Experience building deep domain knowledge of the squad’s area, including handling intricate logical edge cases.
  • Ability to push back early when requirements or designs are ambiguous or incomplete.
  • Experience working within complex, multi-variant domains (such as billing, pricing, identity, or claims).
  • Experience fostering a healthy team dynamic and resolving interpersonal conflicts.
  • Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional colleagues.

Skills

  • gRPC
  • GraphQL
  • React
  • Kafka
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Go
  • AI development tools
  • OKRs
  • KPIs
  • SLOs

Location

  • Remote

Work Type

  • Remote-first
  • Full-Time

Experience Level

  • Manager

Salary/Compensations

  • Competitive salary benchmarked against the industry
  • Annual discretionary bonus ranging from 15-40%

Benefits

  • Work abroad for up to three weeks, twice every tax year
  • 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (increasing with tenure)
  • Option to trade up to five days holiday each year
  • UW discounts
  • Matched-contribution pension scheme
  • Life assurance (up to 4x salary)
  • Family first policies
  • Allowance for private health insurance, dental insurance, or gym membership
  • Dedicated learning and development budget
  • Bi-annual promotion cycles
  • Belonging groups
  • Company-wide celebrations

About the Company

  • UW is on a mission to take the headache out of utilities by providing them all in one place.
  • One bill for energy, broadband, mobile and insurance and a whole lot of savings!
  • Aiming to double in size as we help more people to stop wasting time and money.

Equal Opportunity

  • We provide equal opportunities, a diverse and inclusive work environment, and fairness for everyone.
  • Welcome to apply no matter your age, disability, gender, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity status, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.
  • Please don’t be afraid to ask about what we can do to support your needs.
  • All requests will be carefully and fairly considered.